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The Flame: An Unlikely Patriot Finds a Country to Love
The Flame An Unlikely Patriot Finds a Country to Love Author:Steve Barr, John Poppy Steve Barr of the 1984 Olympic Torch Relay Advance Team, tells of his renewal of faith in America after visiting cities, towns, and rural crossroads and observing the spontaneous outpouring of love and patriotism in the days preceding the Los Angeles Olympics. — Early in 1984 Steve Barr and fourteen other young people began blazing a trail across... more » the United States for 3,636 runners who would pass the Olympic torch from hand to hand between New York and Los Angeles. He wouldn't have said America had much heart. On the road for 207 days and 50,000 miles, Steve met people who changed his opinion. Steve Barr paints a picture of the heart of America, from big cities to small communities to stretches of lonely road. Here is the moving story of a young man awakening to true patriotism, as he begins to see who he is and who his people are. It is a story for all of us.« less